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HANSARD EU Settlement SchemeI thank the hon. Member for the overall tone of his question. First, we have made it very clear that landlords and employers do not need to make retrospective checks. We have been…07 Jul 2021HANSARD EU Settlement SchemeAs the first Home Office Minister to come to the Dispatch Box since this afternoon’s news, I would like to pay tribute to my colleague and right hon. Friend the Member for Old…07 Jul 2021HANSARD EU Settlement SchemeI thank my hon. Friend for his comments: obviously, he has a unique perspective on these issues, given his chairmanship of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs. It is always…07 Jul 2021HANSARD EU Settlement SchemeI am sure the shadow Secretary of State is also aware that at many of the crossing points from the United States into Canada there is full passport control. Presumably, that is…07 Jul 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeFirst, to reassure my hon. Friend’s constituent, all those who have applied by 30 June will have their existing rights protected pending the outcome of their application. To be…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeI thank the hon. Gentleman for his overall comments. I would certainly be happy to meet. As he knows, Irish citizens do not need to apply. The frontier worker system has been open…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeI agree with my hon. Friend. We have already done some close work with public bodies. For example, getting EUSS status can be very helpful to someone with a chaotic lifestyle who…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeThe hon. Gentleman may shake his head, but those are incontrovertible facts.29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeThe hon. Gentleman might want to review some of the answers that I have already given and some of the guidance that has been published on, for example, employment. To be clear,…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeI appreciate my hon. Friend’s comments. He is right to allude to the fact that our system needs to be not only firm, but fair, as we have seen with the millions of statuses we…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeThe many people who found it was a simple application using an app would be surprised to hear the comments about it being unwieldy and everything else. The fact we have managed to…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeI could not agree more. I suspect that a few years back we were getting lots of predictions that we would never manage to grant millions of statuses to people who are our friends…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeThe EU settlement scheme has already granted millions of people secure status in this country and is granting it to thousands more people every day. That is the key focus for us:…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeAbsolutely. I fully endorse the comments my hon. Friend has just made about people being welcome when they come back to the UK. People who have settled status can be absent from…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeI have said that those with in-time applications waiting for decision have their existing rights protected. To be clear, the vast majority of applications are dealt with within…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeI thank my hon. Friend for his comments. I can reassure him that this time next week we will be introducing in the House legislation to do just that and to fix our broken asylum…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I think what I have to say is actually quite crucial given the reference to the position of half a million people in this country. Let us be…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeWhat it shows is that we can deliver a scheme that secures the rights here in the United Kingdom of millions of our neighbours, friends and colleagues, and it also shows how we…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeI appreciate the question and how the right hon. Member has put it. My understanding is that we would adopt the approach that if it was someone who was under 18 or who was lacking…29 Jun 2021HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeIn terms of the position we take as the Government today, anyone who is entitled to and deserves status under the EUSS will be granted it—there is no limit, there is no target and…29 Jun 2021